slavik714/powerwallcloud

Welcome to powerwall cloud!

Introduction

Instructions

• Install PIP and Pandas since it uses holidays, and possibly requests
• Run python powerwallDriver.py backup or python powerwallDriver.py tou
• Create a cron schedule to track your work

Setting up PI

• Find the IP Address of your Rasberry PI by checking router or run ifconfig on PI itself
• Enable PI on Raspberry SSH , username: pi, password: raspberry
• ssh [email protected]
• scp powerwall/* [email protected]:
• Install Pandas by running command below
  • sudo apt-get install python-pandas

Cron Schedule

• Here are some sample crons we used for the SRP Utility, but you can use whatever suits you::
• Important to only set this up as crontab and eventually have a process to rotate log files

crontab -e

#Summer

40 13 * 5-10 1-5 python /home/pi/powerwallDriver.py tou > logTou.txt
1 20 * 5-10 1-5 python /home/pi/powerwallDriver.py backup > logBackup.txt

#Winter
40 4 * 1-4,11-12 1-5  python /home/pi/powerwallDriver.py tou > logTou.txt
1 09 * 1-4,11-12 1-5 python /home/pi/powerwallDriver.py backup > logBackup.txt
40 16 * 1-4,11-12 1-5  python /home/pi/powerwallDriver.py tou > logTou.txt
1 21 * 1-4,11-12 1-5 python /home/pi/powerwallDriver.py backup > logBackup.txt

About code

• powerwallDriver.py - main driver file
• powerwallBackup.py - runs back up for given account (set reserve to 100%) forces charge
• powerwallTimeOfUser.py - runs time of use given account (set reserve to 0%) forces discharge